Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, Race for Iran, February 23, 2011
Our friend David Frum published an interesting post, “America Can’t Afford to Ignore the Chaos in Bahrain”, see here.
http://www.raceforiran.com/?s=Chalabi&search.x=0&search.y=0
David makes some points with which we agree, as when he writes that “An entire American carrier battle group is based in Bahrain—there is no way the United States can avoid being implicated in the actions of the Bahraini government.” But we
The West used to support notorious killers—Saddam Hussein and the Taliban—because they had the same enemy. And now, in an attempt to disrupt Iran, the West is befriending and supporting the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO). The West should learn from their disastrous experiences. The Arabic proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" offers a seemingly innocuous short term logic which the US and Europe has bought into—but banding together with militant radicals to demolish a common enemy doesn’t
Not only that, but they are aging, and not recruiting new supporters. This is a bankrupt group that is not going to do what the Right Wing neo-con dead-enders in Washington hope they will do. It is sad and pitiful for anyone to be hitching their horse to this group. I only wonder who is paying the lobbyists and others trying to gin up their empty cause.
Foreign Policy Analysts Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett reported in a recent blog post:
...One of the more noteworthy
The State Department states that the MEK maintains "the capacity and will" to commit terrorist acts across the world. The group "advocates the violent overthrow of the Iranian regime and was responsible for the assassination of several U.S. military personnel and civilians in the 1970's."
Last Thursday in Washington D.C., a prominent group of former government officials gathered for a panel on Iran.
Among them were a former National Security Adviser, a former CENTCOM
The second group surviving pre-revolutionary armed warfare was Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCR, NLA). Mujahedin insisted to continue their armed strategy and rejected new rules as they had their own interpretation and analysis of the post-revolution era.
Over the past two centuries terrorism has been used for various reasons to achieve various goals. Terrorism has been used by a variety of social, religious and political zealots and ideologues and the
…It becomes clear that there is an American and Israeli intelligence connection to the MKO and to the Jundollah and to many of these individual atrocities that this group has been committing within Iranian borders.
The US administration is ramping up a "secret war on terror groups" in hot spots around the globe by establishing a new military targeting center, officials say. The following is Press TV's interview with former US Senate candidate Mark Dankof regarding the
The group, the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, also known as MEK, claims to have thousands of armed members based in military camps in Iraq, financed and equipped by Saddam Hussein. In the 1970s, elements of the group were involved in the murder of American servicemen and civilian contractors in Iran and took part in the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979. The State Department has included the MEK on its list of international terrorist
Dear Folks,
Well once again it is Strasbourg week, and everyone is away enjoying the final plenary session of the term. There will be two in September, which will cause quite a few headaches for both deputies and admin staff. I shall be going to Rome soon, and I can’t wait to eat amazing food, and of course drink amazing coffee!!!
So for all of you who have spent an extended period of time working in the European Parliament, you cannot have failed to notice members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq
Perhaps this is America's answer to Washington's embarrassment over the Iranian scientist who got away this week:
At least 21 people, including members of the elite Revolutionary Guards, were killed and 100 wounded in suicide attack at a Shi'ite mosque in the southeast Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday, Iranian media reported.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the two suicide bombings in front of Zahedan's Grand Mosque, although a lawmaker said he believed the Sunni rebel
Cults are largely in need of obedient and submissive members whose mentality can be shaped through a change of identity. The process of producing identity within MKO follows the same mechanism as similar in other cults and its orientation began with the start of the internal ideological revolution.
To stripe somebody of his individual identity to replace it with a new identity has been a common process in majority of all contemporary cults. This cult identity is created by sophisticated
The arrest of several terrorist agents of MKO in Iran charged with attempts to blast bombs in public places to create terror, destruction and insecurity once more underlines the undeniable terrorist nature of the group. What is indisputable is that Massoud Rajavi’s call for mass uprising in a deadline period of ten days, beginning from the June 10 to end in regime’s fall in June 20, indicates that he is doing whatever in his power and under any excuse, calling it uprising, resistance or
Mojahedin-e Khalq strategy of armed struggle that constitutes its organizational infrastructure from its very formation has now confronted the organization with a new challenge in spite of its widespread propaganda to convince the West it has made revisions. Although the challenge has failed to break the deadlock over Mojahedin’s proceeding with its revolutionary diplomacy in the outside world, the strategy is the main factor that stabilizes the group’s internal relations especially within Camp
Every year, as a habit and just on the threshold of the anniversary of the June incidents, MKO’s leadership starts a series of measures, but this year can especially be of importance. The propaganda began much earlier with Rajavi’s serial speeches made in an effort to review the history and the relevant post-revolution incidents. Apart from whatever has been said and analyzed so far, there are historical evidences, approved by Rajavi himself, which can better shed light on the reasons and
It has been seven years since the arrest of Maryam Rajavi, the leader and so called president of the Mujahedin–e-Khalq (MKO), a foreign terrorist organization. The arrest took place at the MKO headquarters located in Auver Sur d'Oise, Paris, France on June 17th, 2003. Devoted members faced a shocking challenge as their leader was incarcerated. Some even resorted to a violent extreme political protest over the arrest of Maryam Rajavi when they set themselves ablaze. Two women died as a result
The repeated airplay of a series of inter-organizational sessions discussing MKO’s July’s violent reaction against the entrance of Iraqi forces that left many casualties from the both sides well illustrates the organization’s bias toward cultic and non-democratic practices. The sessions, held in absence of Rajavi and under the title of ‘in defense of camp Ashraf’, mainly focused on the procedures that resulted in the withdrawal of Iraqi police forces. Emboldened by the consequences, the
On April 26 many from among the early MKO sat commemorating the 35th anniversary of the martyrdom of Majid Sharif Vaqefi, of the early founders of MKO murdered by the separated Marxist wing. This event has been studied from different angels in the past three decades and it seems that after years of cliché glorifications and double-faced lamentation over his murder, it is indispensible to depict a truthful image of him in which we have to distinctly distinguish between his ideology and practical
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, Race for Iran, February 23, 2011
Our friend David Frum published an interesting post, “America Can’t Afford to Ignore the Chaos in Bahrain”, see here.
http://www.raceforiran.com/?s=Chalabi&search.x=0&search.y=0
David makes some points with which we agree, as when he writes that “An entire American carrier battle group is based in Bahrain—there is no way the United States can avoid being implicated in the actions of the Bahraini government.” But we
